Improved pack-saddle



dle-bar.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB DUNTON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVED PACK-SADDLE.

Specification forming part ofLetters Patent No. 37,742, dated February24, 1563.

To all whom, it may concern:

Beit known that I. JACOB DUN'roN, of the city and county ofPhiladelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Pack-Saddle, or Device for Securing and SupportingBurdens uponthe Backs ofAniinals; and I do hereby declare the following to be at'ulland exact description of the same, reference being,` hadto theaccompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which-Figure 1 is an underor inner side view of a portion of my pack-saddle,showing the sad Fig.2 is a perspective view of the entire apparatus.Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section of the same, exhibiting its position upon the back of the horse.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalviews.

The subject ot' my invention is an apparatus for conveying burdens uponthe backs of horses or other animals, and consisting of two cases orpanniers of rectangular or other i'om, connected by any suitable means,and ea-:h ,having attached to it a saddle bar or pad, as will behereinafter explained.

To enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains tofully understand and use the same, lwill proceed .to describe itsconstruction and operation.

A A may represent two cases of any suit able torrmprovided with lids aa', and adapted for the storage ot' any commodity which it may bedesired to convey. The said cases are connected at their adjacent edgesby hooks, hinges, or links B B', or by other suitable means. l

To that side of eaclr ofthe cases which comes next the horse is secureda bar or pad,

C C', projecting to a sufficient distance from the surface of the caseto prevent the contact of the latter with the shoulders or hips oftheanimal. The space thus acquired affords room for a sack or pocket, D D',which may te secured to the case or pannier beneath the bar.

Two rectangular cases or panniersconnected and supported in this mannerafford convenience for the placingl of afthird case, A2, in the angleformed bythe upper sides ot' the first two. The links B B', projectinga. little above the angle between the lower cases, secure the upper oneagainst longitudinal displacement, and it may be further held by strapsE E'. .Y

Having thus described my invention, what I claim therein as new,anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A pack-saddle consisting` of two disconnected bars or pads, O O',attached, respectively, to two eases or pa nniers, A A', connectedtogether by any suitable means, substantially as herein described, andfor the purposes set forth.

2. The combination of the two panniers or cases A A', connectinglinks BB', and upper case, A2, when the whole are constructed and arranged inthe manner herein shown and described, so that theconnecting-links ofthe lower cases shall serve to prevent longitudinal displacement oi' theupper one, as eX- plained.

3. The pockets D D' in the described combination with the cases orpanniers A A and bars C C', for the purposes explained.

JACOB DUNTON.

Vitnesses OOTAvlUs KNIGHT, J oHN S. HoLLrNGsI-IEAD.

